There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Leonardo Da Vinci made a robotic lion in 1515 that would walk, sway, open its mouth and move its tail - it even had a compartment that opened to present flowers.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brick wall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running to this day.
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